OREM, Utah (uvu.edu)-Per numerous sources, including The Daily Herald, Salt Lake Tribune and Utah Valley University’s Twitter account, UVU received a new president Friday. Friday, Astrid Tuminez was selected by the Utah System of Higher Education’s Board of Regents to be the seventh president in the Orem-based university’s history. Tuminez […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s rate of job growth is top in the nation for March. The state’s Department of Workforce Services reports that employment in March grew by an estimated 3.3 percent over the year before, higher than any other state in the country. That adds up to […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A former state trooper and fire chief has been sentenced to 180 days in jail for intentionally igniting a wildfire in eastern Utah last year. The Deseret News reports 38-year-old Rex Richard Olsen was sentenced Tuesday after pleaded guilty in November to a felony charge of arson. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Provo officials are disputing the allegations brought forward in a lawsuit that claims the city was negligent by hiring its former police chief and that it failed to properly respond to sexual misconduct reports. The Deseret News reports five women filed a suit last month accusing former […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — A federal appeals court upheld the conviction of a once-prominent Utah businessman imprisoned for lying to banks, but said he should be resentenced. A three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver ruled Thursday that a judge in Salt Lake City […]
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (CDOT)-Per the official Twitter of CDOT, Interstate 70 is closed in both directions near Loma, Colo., roughly 18 miles northwest of Grand Junction and 15 miles east of the Utah-Colorado border because of a fire. The Island Skipper Fire has caused the closure and motorists in the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Police say officers shot and killed a Salt Lake City man after authorities were called to a domestic violence situation. The Deseret News reports 32-year-old Delorean Pikyavit died from his injuries Wednesday following the shooting outside a Salt Lake City home. Police Sgt. Brandon Shearer says officers […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Police say a 2-year-old boy whose polygamous family is featured on a reality TV show has died following a fire in a southeastern Utah home. The Deseret News reports Adonija Foster died of smoke inhalation Saturday after a fire ignited in the room where he was sleeping. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Police documents say a couple who recently moved from Switzerland to Utah planned a murder-suicide that left their family of four dead, buying sleeping pills and researching shootings. The report says 43-year-old Jessica Griffith believed she suffered from terminal health problems and discussed in text […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah State University has removed its Title IX coordinator after an investigation revealed administrators had not sufficiently addressed sexism and sexual misconduct allegations against some faculty members. The Salt Lake Tribune reports university president Noelle Cockett in an email to the campus community announced the appointment of […]
